Family of languages that are spoken in North African countries with territory in Sahara, most in Sudan where there are about 9.5 million. One of the Nilo-Saharan languages of Sudan is also in use in Egypt: Nubian. The one language of Libya, Tedega, belongs to a language of Chad which is unnaturally cut in two by modern borders. The language of Algeria is quite fascinating, Korandje is spoken by a people that is kind of lost deep in the desert.There are about 200 different Nilo-Saharan languages, counting a total of 20-25 million speakers. This makes it one of the smaller language families in Africa.Nilo-Saharan languages are then bordered to the east by Cushitic and Semitic; to the north again by Semitic; to the west and south Niger-Congo. Some scholars have suggested to merge the Niger-Congo and the Nilo-Saharan families.